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Occupy Wall Street Camps at Amazon, Wal-Mart Sandy Aid
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Occupy Wall Street has set up camp online at Amazon.com Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s websites, using wedding registries to solicit gifts of everything from blankets to batteries to bleach for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
The group has been among the volunteers helping with disaster relief efforts since Sandy made landfall on Oct. 29, ravaging coastal communities, causing power blackouts, hobbling mass transit and leaving more than 100 dead in 10 U.S. states. On Saturday, one volunteer at a church in Brooklyn decided to use an Amazon registry, promoted by posts on Twitter Inc.’s microblogging service, to speed aid to those in need.